BYD Doubles EV Sales In August, Sets New Record Of 10,545 Sold
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BYD plug-in electric car sales in China – August 2016
Once again BYD continued its strong EV sales pace in China, and again doubles its year-over-year plug-in electric car results.
For August, the
10,545electric vehicles sold by the company was another best ever result, and was also the third consecutive month BYD finished above the 10,000 mark.
With more than
63,500sales so far this year, BYD has already exceeded the nearly 59,000 it sold in 2015.
With August’s result, BYD continues to own about 1/3rd of the EV market in China this year.
Of note (because everyone has a keen interest in what Tesla is up to), the Model S was the best selling imported plug-in for China in August with 559 sold, bring the 2016 total to 3,711 cars, while the Model X finally arrived in some volume, selling 150 copies.
BYD August sales breakdown:
- Qin– 3,106
- Tang– 2,502
- e5– 1,961
- e6 –1,512
- Qin EV300– 1,464
BYD plug-in electric car sales in China – August 2016
Global EV sales - BYD still number one by far.
us fleet in Calif. hops aboard wireless charging
Cost savings offset hefty price of coils
Antelope Valley Transit Authority buses top up with power by stopping over an electromagnetic coil.
Electric buses operated by the Antelope Valley Transit Authority will soon be topping up with power simply by stopping over an electromagnetic coil at the local transit center in Lancaster, Calif.
Two 50-kilowatt coils, costing $350,000 apiece, have been installed and are being tested. Once they go into regular operation at the end of this month, they'll add about five miles of charge in 10 minutes, more than enough to keep the buses topped up as they go out on their routes and return periodically to the transit center.
"That five to 10 minutes of charge over and over will give them the range to go even their longest routes," says Zachary Kahn, director of government affairs, North America, for BYD Heavy Industries, the Chinese company that builds Antelope Valley Transit Authority's electric buses.
But the authority's not stopping there. It also bought 11 coils at 250 kWs apiece, good for 25 miles additional range in 10 minutes. The package includes vehicle adapters from Wireless Advanced Vehicle Electrification Inc. of Salt Lake City.
While auto manufacturers are just getting into wireless charging, other industries are already there. Aside from buses, wireless charging also can work for delivery trucks and service vehicles such as forklifts that operate over fixed routes where they can top up with power frequently.
"We want to be all electric by 2018," says Len Engel, executive director of Antelope Valley Transit Authority, whose service area covers a number of communities in the California desert north of Los Angeles. The authority has an added incentive for going all electric -- local jobs. BYD builds the electric buses in Lancaster at a factory that employs about 300.
Engel acknowledges that $350,000 is a lot of money for the coils, but he says it's worth it. That's because electric buses cost $1.20 a mile less to operate than the older diesel buses in the fleet.
The savings mounts up quickly on the authority's buses, some of which travel over 200 miles a day on their routes.
Says Engel: "We make it up in operating costs. We make it up in maintenance costs. A typical diesel bus will go through a couple of transmissions in its lifetime. These buses don't' have transmissions."
Continual "opportunistic charging," in which vehicles stop and take on power in short intervals, means transit authorities can buy buses with smaller batteries, says Michael Masquelier, CEO of Wireless Advanced Vehicle Electrification.
"That's our business model. By having high-power charging, you can have less battery," he says. "It reduces the weight and the cost. The size of battery pack you purchase is lower."
You can reach Bradford Wernle atbwernle@crain.com
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